Silkie roo with easter eggers, would the babies be ugly?

[Shellyb]

I want a roo in with my easter egger chicks, but a nice one. Would the chicks from that breeding be ugly? Anyone have pics? Thanks

 

[pinkchick]

I had a white silkie roo in with my bantam EE's.......my mother begged me to hatch some of the eggs out. IMO it was something I should have never done. They weren't my cup of tea but they were kinda cute and kinda scary at the same time. Looked like punk rockers, especially the roos. I will see if I can find some photos.

Sorry...no photo just looked. I must have deleted them after I sold them. I did like them they were not flighty and pretty friendly, but the girls from that hatch upon maturity went broody almost immediately upon laying eggs.

 

[NellaBean]

I have some that were a white silkie hen x EE rooster.

The babies are strange looking. Don't have any terribly recent pictures. The two big white and black ones are the two silkie/ee chicks.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

I love my silkie x EE's!!! Here are two of them, Dotty (left) and Hawkeye (right):

And here is Dusty:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess!

 

[Shellyb]

thank you for your responses. I think those birds are cute actually. I think I forgot to mention that they are LF easter eggers. Will that make a difference? Will it cause problems with hatching chicks? Thanks again.

 

[NellaBean]

If the silkie is the rooster the only problem i foresee is whether or not he can "get the job done".

I had the opposite....where the hen was the bitty silkie and the rooster was a big ol standard sized EE. So these big ol chicks hatched out of little bantam eggs. Seemed to work fine

 

[TurtleFeathers]

With mine, the rooster was the silkie and the hens were LF Ameraucanas and EE's. He had absolutely NO problem "getting the job done" - after all, where there's a will there's a way!!! LOL! So, mine came from large blue eggs - and the hens have gone on to lay small/medium sized blue eggs. Hawkeye (my rooster from above) runs with my free range flock now, and I hatched some of his hen's dark brown eggs this past spring and got a few pullets - I'm hoping they'll be olive eggers.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

This is one of my SilkiexEE roosters.

He had a brother that was red Where he has white and both had the same parents.